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AND PLUTO El'IJIACUOS. M3
other strata, as to suggest the idea that some
violent convulsion of nature had occurred here/
With a view of ascertaining Avhat was the
original level of the ancient site, I dug a pit 24/
deep, nearly in the centre of the northern half
of the platform; hut, on descending helow the level
at which antiquities have heen commonly found,
namely, about 4', I did not obtain the smallest
fragment of sculpture or pottery.
The soil consisted almost entirely of small loose
fragments of broken rock, the detritus from the
mountain, lying in layers sloping towards the south.
The ground at the foot of the escarp, and forming
its base-line, consisted of detached masses of par-
tially decomposed breccia.
These masses had one plane surface, lying over
against the escarp in a direction nearly parallel to
its plane.
Sometimes the plane of the breccia had been
forced into such close contact with the plane of
the limestone escarp, as to adhere to it; but more
generally the two planes were separated by a space
of two or more inches, which, to any one unac-
quainted with the real formation of the ground,
appeared like a deep groove cut in the native rock.
On removing a portion of the overlying masses
by blasting, I found the escarp behind them de-
scending at the same angle, 79°, and presenting
the same regular slope.
r I have noticed in Rhodes strata similarly contorted. These
may be seen on the side of the road leading from the town of
Rhodes to Triauda, and are clearly the result of earthquakes.
other strata, as to suggest the idea that some
violent convulsion of nature had occurred here/
With a view of ascertaining Avhat was the
original level of the ancient site, I dug a pit 24/
deep, nearly in the centre of the northern half
of the platform; hut, on descending helow the level
at which antiquities have heen commonly found,
namely, about 4', I did not obtain the smallest
fragment of sculpture or pottery.
The soil consisted almost entirely of small loose
fragments of broken rock, the detritus from the
mountain, lying in layers sloping towards the south.
The ground at the foot of the escarp, and forming
its base-line, consisted of detached masses of par-
tially decomposed breccia.
These masses had one plane surface, lying over
against the escarp in a direction nearly parallel to
its plane.
Sometimes the plane of the breccia had been
forced into such close contact with the plane of
the limestone escarp, as to adhere to it; but more
generally the two planes were separated by a space
of two or more inches, which, to any one unac-
quainted with the real formation of the ground,
appeared like a deep groove cut in the native rock.
On removing a portion of the overlying masses
by blasting, I found the escarp behind them de-
scending at the same angle, 79°, and presenting
the same regular slope.
r I have noticed in Rhodes strata similarly contorted. These
may be seen on the side of the road leading from the town of
Rhodes to Triauda, and are clearly the result of earthquakes.